Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld joined California Governor Jerry Brown on a tour of a new UPS fleet of electric trucks in Sacramento. An EPA grant of $1.5 million helped with the purchase of the fleet. UPS expects the trucks to reduce fuel consumption by 126,000 gallons a year and to lower carbon emissions.

Protecting Drinking Water by Closing a Landfill

Large-scale construction work has been completed to properly close the 440-acre Sunrise Mountain Landfill just outside Las Vegas. EPA required this work to ensure the durability of the final landfill cover and to protect a vital drinking water source for communities from Las Vegas to Phoenix to Southern California.

Cleaning Up Contamination on the Navajo Nation - A Progress Report

A new building replaces a contaminated structure.

EPA and other federal agencies announced significant progress on a coordinated five-year plan, which invested more than $100 million to address health risks posed by uranium contamination on the Navajo Nation.